Ella Creamer is an editorial intern at POLITICO Magazine.After Kabul fell to the Taliban on August 15, 2021, Western media assigned the group a new moniker: “Taliban 2.0.” Indeed, the Islamic fundamentalist group that had ruled Afghanistan in the latter half of the ’90s — overseeing a theocratic regime that repressed women, religious minorities and political opponents — promised to form an “open, inclusive Islamic government” and that women were “going to be very active in the society.
At a maternity hospital Muus visited that went without funding for four months, pictured below, the head of the hospital was forced to purchase hand sanitizer, detergent, rice and cooking oil from her own pocket. Two NGOs eventually offered help and an international organization stepped in to run the hospital.
A girl and boy born minutes apart — their mothers side by side holding hands — lie at a maternity ward in Kabul, August 8.Female medical students during an exam at a university in Kabul, August 4. A wooden divider has been installed in the classroom to accommodate the Taliban’s demand for gender segregated classes in universities.
The private institution Muus photographed — which asked not to be named for fear of reprisal from the Taliban — told her the number of participating students in the last round of tests was down 50 percent, and it was mostly women missing. This is not only because of the girls’ education ban, but also because families struggling financially in the economic crisis do not have the money to send their daughters to university.
Maryam and Husna , banned from attending school, spend time at home doing chores and listening to music — here, they put on Adele's "Rolling in the Deep." Women and children picnic in the historic Babur Garden in Kabul, August 5. The park has been divided by gender after the Taliban demanded that men and women shouldn't mix in public spaces such as parks, zoos and funfairs.
I hate religion.
This is so wrong. Everyone knew this would happen, yet we withdrew anyway. However you feel about Trump or Biden or any other politician, this is an absolute tragedy and our country shares the blame for the subjugation of these women.
Thanks to a terrible, poorly planned pullout by Joe Biden.
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